baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2352430-A (GB)
Title: Pedal bracket for a vehicle with frangible mounting means
Inventor: BYRON DONALD JOHN
IPC: B60T7/06
Filed: 2000-10-09
Abstract: A pedal bracket 10 for mounting one or more control pedals (4 in figure 1) of a vehicle to a pedal box 1 comprises, a base plate 11 for mounting onto a surface of the pedal box, at least one shaft support 20 extending from the base plate to support a shaft 21, a plurality of fasteners 14 provided on or in the base plate, and frangible means 13 engaging with each of the fasteners whereby in the event of a front-end impact of the vehicle the frangible means fracture and the pedal bracket becomes detached from the pedal box. The frangible means may be a plurality of sacrificial areas of the base plate of reduced material thickness with respect to the remainder of the base plate (as shown), or they may be sacrificial bushes surrounding each fastener (see figure 4). The fasteners may be rivets, and the pedal bracket may be formed from various materials. A pyrotechnic charge may be provided to aid detachment of the pedal bracket from the pedal box.
Patent GB-2368313-A (GB)
Title: Cold foil stamping
Inventor: CASTLETON MICHAEL ADRIAN
IPC: B41F19/06
Filed: 2000-10-28
Abstract: A web 10 to which foil is to be applied is printed with an adhesive pattern corresponding to the area where foil is to be applied. This printing takes place between rolls 12,14. The adhesive 11 stays wet and non-tacky until activated by, for example, ultra-violet light. The adhesive coated substrate moves through a first UV station 16 where adhesive activation is started and then through a nip 20,22 where a foil web 26 is pressed against the (now tacky) adhesive. Foil is transferred from the foil web 26 to the web 10. After leaving the nip, the substrate and the applied foil move through a second UV station 36 where adhesive cure is completed. The web 10 may be replaced by sheets (Fig 2). Embossing may take place in the nip 20,22 (Figures 3 and 4).
Patent GB-2360126-A (GB)
Title: Power-saving driving circuit for piezoelectric actuators
Inventor: JAENKER PETER
IPC: H02N2/04
Filed: 2000-12-13
Abstract: Piezoelectric actuators 19,20 are arranged in a half bridge of a clocked amplifier bridge 21 and that a choke 22 is connected between the control connection of the piezoelectric actuators, said control connection being located between the two piezoelectric actuators, and the output of the other half bridge of the amplifier bridge 21 in which the two electronic switches (23 and 24) of the amplifier bridge (21) are serially arranged. The invention is used in a piezoelectric actuator system comprising two piezoelectric actuators mechanically and electrically arranged in series, as well as a driver circuit (see figs. 1 and 2).
Patent GB-2371225-A (GB)
Title: Eye make-up remover
Inventor: ANDREWS KATHERYN
IPC: A45D40/00
Filed: 2001-01-09
Abstract: An eye make-up remover tool comprises a plastic stick having a sponge or the like at both ends coated with make-up remover solution. One end is flat and the other pointed, or both ends may be pointed. Each tool may be sealed in a foil pack and they may be stored in a container having a button-operated spring-loaded lid. The container may include a mirror.
Patent GB-2360481-A (GB)
Title: Forceps for cutting free the tissue in body cavities
Inventor: BOEBEL MANFRED
IPC: A61B17/28
Filed: 2001-01-18
Abstract: A forceps for cutting free the tissue in body cavities, in particular myomas sitting intramurally in the uterus, comprising a forceps jaw 6 with two branches 7 having gripping surfaces 8 which are pivotable about a common axis. The branches are provided on their back outer surface with a tooth-like back profile 11 over a part of their length. The back profile may have a saw-tooth profile, with teeth 12 running transversely over the backs of the branches.
Patent GB-2373231-A (GB)
Title: Wing mirror assembly incuding blind spot mirror
Inventor: EMAMI FATHOLLAH NAINI
IPC: B60R1/08
Filed: 2001-03-16
Abstract: A wing mirror assembly for a motor vehicle comprises two mirrors (M1, M2), one mirror (M1) being placed below another mirror (M2). The mirrors (M1, M2) are at an angle to each other such that the one mirror (M1) shows the blind spot of the other mirror (M2).
Patent GB-2374130-A (GB)
Title: A reversing valve for a motor vehicle air conditioning system
Inventor: HEYS MALCOLM
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2001-04-04
Abstract: A reversing valve 32, for controlling the direction (X or Y, Fig. 1) of the flow of fluid in a motor vehicle air conditioning system including heat exchangers (14, 18), and a compressor (12), comprises a main piston 38, fluid chambers 50-56 defined by rings 42-46 of the main piston, and an inner piston 58 rotatable relative to the main piston by an electric motor 60 and having aligned bores 62, 64 separated by a wall 66. In one position of the inner piston, as shown, pressurised fluid from the compressor is direct via port 86 and chamber 54 to chamber 56 to move the main piston to its first position so that fluid flows via port 84 in one direction (X). In the other position of the inner piston (Fig.3) pressurised fluid from the compressor is directed via port 86 and chamber 54 to chamber 50 to move the main piston to its second position so that fluid flows via port 88 in the opposite direction (Y).
Patent GB-2360334-A (GB)
Title: Clutch for multi-directional transportation device
Inventor: FERNIE GEOFFREY ROY
IPC: A61G5/04
Filed: 1999-11-08
Abstract: A clutch (54) for altering the direction of a drive unit (20) of a transportation device between a first direction of travel and a second direction of travel, the drive unit having at least one drive wheel connected to a shaft (46), the shaft being rotatably mounted with respect to the transportation device between at least a first position, corresponding to the first direction of travel, and a second position, corresponding to the second direction of travel, the clutch comprises a housing (43) to receive a portion of the shaft, a lock (126,. 156, 158) having a first preset locked position corresponding to the first direction of travel and a second preset locked position corresponding to the second direction of travel and, a connecting member (164, 170, 180) connected to the shaft and the lock for alternately locking the shaft in one of the directions of travel.
Patent GB-2375512-A (GB)
Title: Storage container with wheels
Inventor: O'GRADY RAYMOND
IPC: B60R9/055
Filed: 2001-06-25
Abstract: The container has a handle to allow manual pushing or pulling of the container via the wheels. The wheels are detachably mounted at one end of the container. The container is attached to a lid along its longer edge via a hinge. The hinge may be attached to the opposite edge to allow an alternative opening direction for the lid. A waterproof seal is provided in the container. The container may be mounted to a roof rack of a car. The inside of the container may contain straps for tying down the contents to be carried. The lid of the container is kept closed by securing latches and locks.
Patent GB-2366515-A (GB)
Title: A hanger device
Inventor: HUANG STEVE
IPC: A47G25/06
Filed: 2001-08-09
Abstract: A hanger device comprising a base 1 and a supporting rod 2 extended upward from the base, the support rod including an upper section 11 that is at an angle C with a horizontal plane on which the base 1 rests, a plurality of hanger rods 30 being mounted around the upper section 10 of the support rod. A plurality of sleeves 20 is securely mounted around the upper portion 10 of the support rod, each sleeve 20 includes a longitudinal bore 21 having an enlarged lower bore section 26, each sleeve further includes a larger section 24 and a smaller section 22 extended upward from a slanted outer surface 23 of the larger section. Each hanger rod 30 includes a loop end 32 that is mounted around the smaller portion 22 of an associated sleeve 20, the loop end 32 of each hanger rod is rotatably held between the slanted upper surface 23 of the associated sleeve 20 and an end face 28 of the larger section 24 of an upper sleeve 20 that is superimposed above the associated sleeve 20.
Patent GB-2371949-A (GB)
Title: Enhancement of communication capabilities
Inventor: HICKEY MARIANNE
IPC: H04M1/72445
Filed: 2001-11-26
Abstract: A method is provided of enhancing communication between a user (5) using a first device such as a cell phone (40), and a content server (4) with which the user is interacting through a multimodal browser (3). The communication is managed as a session having one or more participants, the user being an initial participant to the session. The user, using the first device (5), passes on session joining information to a second device (75), for example a printer or display, and the second device uses the joining information to join the session. The multimodal browser (3) then distributes content, including content references, from the content server to the devices in the session according to their capabilities. Thus a user 5 using a voice browser can also receive content not suitable for voice communication, or where higher quality is needed.
Patent GB-2370093-A (GB)
Title: Axially compliant isolator
Inventor: MORSCHES MICHEAL R
IPC: B62D1/19
Filed: 2001-12-03
Abstract: The vehicle steering shaft isolator 10 has cylindrical housing 14, central bore (40 Fig.2) with longitudinal grooves 20 therein, a longitudinal aperture 18 in its wall and universal joint ears 30. Longitudinally extending blades or keys 22 lie within the grooves and may be mounted directly to shaft 12 or be formed on a tubular spool (28) pressed onto the shaft. A radial cross pin 24 engages the shaft and projects into the aperture. A resilient material sleeve (Fig 2) 26, e.g. synthetic rubber, elastomer, surrounds the blades and the cross pin such that torque is transmitted with torsional compliance between blades and groove through the resilient material. Axial compliance is provided by the pin axially compressing the resilient material in the aperture and radial compliance by the cylindrical wall of the sleeve. Compliance is tuned by adjusting the relevant material thickness.
Patent GB-2373411-A (GB)
Title: Location data dissemination and reception for entities having short range receivers
Inventor: SPRATT MICHAEL PETER
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2002-01-25
Abstract: In order to reduce power consumption of battery-powered devices (20) to which location data is to be disseminated by short range communication, the devices are arranged to wake-up (26) to listen for location data at known times as judged against a reference time standard (15). This time standard is also available to the transmitters (10) of location data which accordingly transmit their location data at known times. The devices comprise a clock subsystem for receiving external reference time data and responding to the received reference time data to synchronise an internal clock with the reference time. They also comprise a timing subsystem which determines the occurrence of location data time windows that are scheduled to occur at known times relative to the time reference, and a send control for managing the sending of messages to minimise or eliminate the sending of messages during the location time windows.
Patent GB-2385381-A (GB)
Title: Synchronised rotary lobed pump
Inventor: STOKES PHILIP ROBERT
IPC: F04C15/00
Filed: 2002-02-15
Abstract: A rotary lobed pump comprises a sealed pump section 1, containing a first lobed rotor and a second lobed rotor, a first motor 9 and a second motor 9a, for independently driving and engaging the first and second rotors respectively, and a controller and encoder system 10, for controlling and preventing contact between the rotors. The controller and encoder system may be a SIN-COS single turn absolute encoder. The first and/or second motor may be servo or stepper motors.
Patent GB-2387541-A (GB)
Title: Biological response modifiers and their uses
Inventor: REZVANI MOHIADDIN
IPC: A61K36/00
Filed: 2002-04-16
Abstract: A combination of curcumin (diferuloylmethane from the rhizome of Curcuma longa Linn., Zingiberaceae), alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), and optionally at least one edible oil, especially sunflower oil, is useful for the prevention and/or treatment of tissue damaged by non-physical insult, particularly mucositis or central nervous system (CNS) damage caused by cancer therapy.
Patent GB-2388755-A (GB)
Title: Switching circuit for soft decision decoder
Inventor: SPENCER ANTHONY
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: A soft decision Forward Error Correcting Extended Hamming code decoder employs a switching circuit in which switching stages 50, 60 and 70 are controlled 81, 82, 83 by the input of a syndrome code which determines whether a data input eg. 511 is directed towards a corresponding output 521 or an alternative output 525. This allows the detection of pairs of received bits having "low confidence" and whose bit polarities SUM (bit-wise XOR) to the syndrome of the received code signal, the detection occurring when an even, non-zero number of parity errors is detected.
Patent GB-2380340-A (GB)
Title: PLL synthesiser in a cellular phone
Inventor: ENDO MEGUMI
IPC: H03L7/18
Filed: 2002-09-13
Abstract: A cellular phone has consecutively a receiving slot (S11), an idling slot (S12) which is either a waiting slot or a peripheral information receiving slot, and a transmitting slot (S13) in a single frame. The PLL synthesizer includes a loop filter block (30) between a charge pump (25) and a voltage controlled oscillator (50) to control the locking time of the PLL synthesizer for switching between the oscillation frequencies. The loop filter block (30) selects a first filter (LF1) having a largest time constant upon switching from a receiving frequency to a transmitting frequency via an idling slot (S12), an intermediate time constant upon switching from the transmitting frequency to the receiving frequency, and a smallest time constant upon switching from the receiving frequency to the transmitting frequency via the peripheral information receiving frequency. Alternatively, an RC low-pass filter with variable resisters and capacitors may be provided instead of the loop filter block.
Patent GB-2382505-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for providing location-specific services to users
Inventor: CHERRY DARREL DAVID
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2002-09-25
Abstract: An information system 10 for providing information to a user via a communication network 120. The information system comprises a location-specific input system 110 which can be incorporated into a portable computing device such as a mobile telephone, a PDA or a laptop, which receives an input from a user. Information is then returned to the user based on their current position. For example, a user wishing to purchase cinema tickets would only be presented with local cinema information. The positioning means can be determined by locating the cell a mobile user is in, querying a cell phone service provider, or determined by GPS or the like. The advantage is that the user is only presented with directly relevant information.
Patent GB-2384047-A (GB)
Title: An oven
Inventor: WANG DONGLEI
IPC: F24C7/06
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: An oven comprises a casing 1, 10 having left and right panels, a glass door 4, at least one halogen lamp 11 heating source having a cover 2 installed above the lamp 11, at least one infrared tube heating source 6 having a hood 5 installed above the infrared tube 6, and an internal lining 3 disposed between the left and right panels and the halogen lamp 11. The halogen lamp 11 is disposed at the top of the oven and the infrared heating source 6 is disposed at the bottom of the oven. The halogen lamp 11 is the main heating source with the infrared tube 6 used for supplementary heating. The infrared tube 6 may be made from quartz. The lining 3 may be bent and may be made from stainless steel to scatter light in different refractive angles. The door 4 may be made from net shape screen print glass in a dark colour or film plating glass. The oven temperature may be controlled by a single finger tip operable button 12.
Patent GB-2388649-A (GB)
Title: Temperature-controled fluid coupling
Inventor: USUI MASAYOSHI
IPC: F16D35/02
Filed: 2003-03-25
Abstract: A temperature-controlled fluid friction coupling 10 is controlled by flow of viscous fluid into or out of shearing surface gaps between housing 6 and disc rotor 2. A swing-type valve lever 13 contacts an actuating pin 11 near a root end of the lever and the lever swinging end slides on, while maintaining contact with, the surface of a housing partition 7 having a valve opening 12 therein for communicating reservoir 8 and working 9 housing chambers. On deformation of temperature sensitive element 20 e.g. bi-metallic plate or thermo-wax cartridge caused by air temperature change outside the housing 4,5, the actuating pin moves parallel to the surface of the partition 7, so that the swinging end of the valve lever 13 moves to open or close the valve opening. Thus, the fluid flow from reservoir chamber 8 to the torque transmitting chamber 9 in the housing is controlled.
Patent GB-2400303-A (GB)
Title: Cordless kettles
Inventor: ETHERINGTON DAVID
IPC: A47J27/21
Filed: 2003-04-11
Abstract: A kettle (10) comprising a kettle vessel (12) and a power supply base (14) is provided. The power supply base (14) comprises a signalling device in the form of an indicator (24) to indicate current is flowing in a heating element (not shown) within the kettle vessel (12). By providing the indicator (24) within the power supply base (14) the kettle (10) can be positioned to allow a user to easily recognise that the kettle (10) is operational. Furthermore, by arranging the indicator (24) to respond to the flow of current in the heating element, the indicator (24) can give accurate information regarding the operational status of the kettle (10). In a particularly preferred embodiment the indicator (24) comprises light emitting elements distributed around the power supply base (14) to be visible from all directions.
Patent GB-2392270-A (GB)
Title: Operating a first processor at a first voltage for a first performance level and a second processor at a second voltage for a second performance level
Inventor: BARR ANDREW H
IPC: G06F1/32
Filed: 2003-06-27
Abstract: An arrangement includes modulating a first voltage level of a first processor and a second voltage level of a second processor within a multi-processor computer system. The first processor operates at a first performance level and the second processor operates at a second performance level. The first performance level is higher than said second performance level.
Patent GB-2403643-A (GB)
Title: A device for picking up dog excrement
Inventor: GAMMONS GRAHAM PAUL
IPC: E01H1/12
Filed: 2003-07-09
Abstract: A device for picking up dog excrement that has a grabbing device 1 attached to the bottom of a walking stick 8. Preferably the closing grab 1 is covered with a polythene (RTM) bag, which may be placed over the excrement and the grab 1 activated from the handle via a finger ring 4 or trigger that moves the grabber 1 pivotally via a cord or wire connection/linkage 3 allowing the grabber to grip the excrement between the grab 1 and the pad/anvil 5 located at the base of the stick. The open position is maintained by use of a spring 2 or rubber band. When the excrement is lifted, the bag is turned inside out and removed from the stick. The device may be fitted to an existing walking stick via plastic ties 10 (Fig 3).
Patent GB-2388047-A (GB)
Title: Game
Inventor: TOUBKIN MILTON WALTER
IPC: G09B19/22
Filed: 2002-02-07
Abstract: An educational board game in which there is a board marked in a grid and cards marked with a description, drawing or phonetic spelling of a word on one side and the correct spelling on the other, each card having categories of questions in degrees of hardness, as a player gets the spelling right he moves up the board and, when he reaches a promotion level on the board, he can move to a harder category of question.
Patent GB-2405498-A (GB)
Title: A scripting system for preprocessing application source code in order to include external data sources
Inventor: SWAN ANDREW
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2003-08-30
Abstract: An authoring process 26 accepts data in a first format 24 along with a template file 28, comprising in part source code in a second format, the output 30 is source code in the second desired format. The input preferably comprises an XML file 24, or some other data in a first format, which gives the informational content along with a template file 28 which comprises code of the desired output format along with scripted sections which when procesees cause the reading-in of the informational content from the data file. One embodiment causes the creation of the source code for a C based address program 30, the name and address details come from an XML file 24 (the schema describing tags such as <ENTRY name="Joe Bloggs", page 7 of specification) and some scripting (language not specified) is used to add in the desired content to the otherwise static template 24. The re-authoring of application for different platforms, e.g. from internet to mobile phone, and Macromedia's Dreamweaver (RTM) product are mentioned in the description.
Patent GB-2406097-A (GB)
Title: A water-based polymer coating composition
Inventor: BEVAN GLEN
IPC: C09D105/00
Filed: 2003-09-18
Abstract: A water-based polymer coating composition comprising a polymer resin, water and dispersants, the improvement wherein: the dispersant system is multifunctional, based on natural carbohydrates in an amount effective to produce pigmented mill bases; and the coating composition further utilizes as binder terpene (co)polymer resin emulsion derived from renewable and sustainable sources. Preferably the dispersant is based on natural carbohydrates selected from, but not limited to the group comprising, galactans, particularly galactomannans (carrageenan, guar gum, xanthan gum, acacia gum, tragacanth or water soluble alginates), whether singly or, more especially as synergistic mixtures.
Patent GB-2390810-A (GB)
Title: Perfume compositions
Inventor: PERRING KEITH DOUGLAS
IPC: C11B9/00
Filed: 2002-04-04
Abstract: This invention is concerned with perfume compositions comprising: a) nitrile perfumery material of general formula RCN where R is a hydrocarbyl radical of formula CxHy, x is an integer in the range 9 to 12, and y is an integer in the range 15 to 25; and b) hydrocarbon perfumery material having a boiling point of less than about 185 {C and an octanol-water partition coefficient of at least 4.0 (in logarithmic form), wherein a) and b) together comprise at least 20% by weight of the total weight of the composition. Perfume compositions in accordance with the present invention provide a good deodorant effect several hours after application to a surface such as fabric or skin.
Patent GB-2407023-A (GB)
Title: A purse adapted to be worn on the hand
Inventor: JENKINS KERI
IPC: A45C1/04
Filed: 2003-10-14
Abstract: A purse adapted to be worn on the hand comprises a pouch 18 having an access opening 19 with a closure, a wrist strap 24 and a finger loop 23, the purse being held in use in the palm of the hand. The closure may comprise a zipper fastener, hook and loop fastener, a magnet or a spring. The finger loop may be configured to fit round a finger or a thumb. In an alternative embodiment, the purse is carried in the back of the hand.